The solver "gurobi" uses Gurobi (a trademark of Gurobi Optimization,
Inc.; see http://www.gurobi.com/) to solve integer, mixed-integer, and
linear programming problems. Normally gurobi is invoked by AMPL's
solve command, which gives the invocation
gurobi stub -AMPL
in which stub.nl is an AMPL generic output file (possibly written
by "ampl -obstub" or "ampl -ogstub"). After solving the problem,
gurobi writes a stub.sol file for use by ampl's solve and solution
commands. When you run ampl, this all happens automatically if you
give the AMPL commands
option solver gurobi;
solve;
You can control gurobi by setting the environment variable gurobi_options
appropriately (either by using ampl's option command, or by using the
shell's set and export commands before you invoke ampl). You can put
one or more (white-space separated) phrases in $gurobi_options. To see
the possibilities, invoke
gurobi '-='
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INSTALLING
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On Linux systems, libgurobi*.so (where the value of "*" depends
on the current version of Gurobi) and the libgurobi.so.* to which
it points need to appear in the current directory when gurobi
itself appears there, or in one of the standard places (specified by
/etc/ld.so.conf on some systems), or in a directory named in
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH. An alternative is to add a short shell script,
such as
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /usr/local/bin/gurobix "$@"
to a directory in your usual $PATH (and mark the script executable
with, e.g., "chmod +x gurobi"). The above script assumes that the
true "gurobi" binary has been moved to /usr/local/bin/gurobix and that
the libgurobi* files have been moved to /usr/local/lib.
MacOSX systems are similar to Linux systems, but with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
in place of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Starting 20150225, gurobi binaries
for MacOSX should find the appropriate libgurobi.so.* if it appears
in the same directory as "gurobi".
On MS Windows systems, gurobi.exe and the relevant gurobi*.dll must
appear somewhere in your usual search $PATH (or in the current
directory).
AIX systems are similar to Linux systems, but with LIBPATH in place of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and libgurobbi*.a in place of libgurobi*.so*.
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solve_result_num values
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Here is a table of solve_result_num values that "gurobi" can return
to an AMPL session, along with an indication of the text that appears
in the associated solve_message.
Value Message
0 optimal solution
1 optimal solution with integer variables rounded to integers
2 optimal solution with nonintegral "integer" variables
100 suboptimal: could not satisfy optimaliter tolerances
101 bestbndstop reached
102 bestobjstop reached
103 bestobjstop or bestbndstop reached
104 bestobjstop or bestbndstop reached with no solution available
200 infeasible [IIS computation not attempted]
201 infeasible [IIS returned]
202 infeasible [IIS finder failed]
203 infeasible; .dunbdd returned [IIS computation not attempted]
204 infeasible; .dunbdd returned [IIS also returned]
205 infeasible; .dunbdd returned [IIS finder failed]
300 unbounded
301 unbounded [unbounded or infeasible; IIS finder failed]
302 unbounded; .unbdd returned
303 unbounded; .unbdd returned [IIS finder failed]
400 objective cutoff
401 iteration limit with a feasible solution
402 node limit with a feasible solution
403 time limit with a feasible solution
404 solution limit
405 interrupted with a feasible solution
411 iteration limit without a feasible solution
412 node limit without a feasible solution
413 time limit without a feasible solution
415 interrupted without a feasible solution
500 Could not create the gurobi environment
501 Gurobi call failed [message gives routine name]
502 misc. failure [message gives details]
503 Bad $gurobi_options
504 Surprise VBasis[...] = ...
505 Surprise CBasis[...] = ...
506 Gurobi set/get parameter failed [message gives more details]
510 cannot open logfile (specified in $gurobi_options or command line)
511 cannot open paramfile (specified in $gurobi_options or command line)
512 missing value in paramfile
513 extra text in paramfile
514 invalid parameter name in paramfile
520 numeric error
521 nonlinear objective
522 nonlinear constraint
523 quadratic objective involving division by 0
524 indefinite quadratic objective or constraint
525 quadratic constraint involving division by 0
530 could not open serverlic file
531 error in serverlic file
532 error while tuning
540 Gurobi Compute Server not reached or bad pool_... settings
541 Rejected by Gurobi Compute Server
542 Feature not supported by Gurobi Compute Server
543 Feature not supported
563 logical constraint is not an indicator constraint
564 bad suffixes for multiple objectives
565 bug? Error return from named routine
567 complementarity constraint
570 solution found but not available (Gurobi bug?)
601 could not talk to Gurobi compute server
602 job rejected by Gurobi compute server
603 no license for specified gurobi compute server
604 surprise return while trying to use Gurobi compute server
605 bad value for cloudid or cloudkey, or Gurobi Cloud out of reach
Values 521-524 only arise in Gurobi versions >= 4.0.
Values 203-205 and 302-303 only arise in Gurobi versions >= 4.5.
Values 530-531 and 601-603 only arise in Gurobi versions >= 5.5.
Values 540-542 only arise in Gurobi versions >= 6.5.
Value 605 only arises in Gurobi versions >= 7.0.
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If you have questions about or find bugs with this stuff,
please contact:
David M. Gay
dmg@ampl.com